[fanfan]

Only if you consider the absence of something the “default” setting.

The absence of color is black.

So why are the souls and palms of black people, white?

[allmendream]

The palms of a black person are lighter, but they are not “white” and certainly not albino.

Skin color is determined by melanin content. A black persons skin contains more melanin than a brown person who has more melanin in the skin than a white person. The skin color black is the abundance of melanin not the absence of color.

The fully functioning genetic system puts melanin in the skin (although not exactly evenly, a point you seem fixated upon for some unknown reason). People who do not have this fully functioning system have lighter skin.

Thus white skin is the result of mutations within the genetic system that would otherwise cause dark skin.

If your view is that at the beginning the human genome was as God intended and every change after ‘the Fall’ was degenerative; then black people are what God intended and white skin is a ‘fallen state’.

[Jewbacca]

“The absence of color is black.”

No, the absence of color is white.

(The absence of light is black. Indeed, something truely black absorbs all colors. Whatever color something is is the color it does not absorb, but rather reflects.)

[RegulatorCountry]

What a very unfortunate misspelling.